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If a character's physical age is reverted to school age, they will have to go to school again, even if they're Really 700 Years Old or have an IQ of 250. Either nobody must know, or they're some kind of high school spy, or there's just no explanation whatsoever except that kids have to go to school. Also, aliens or inhuman beings that look like teenagers will go to school in the appropriate year for their apparent age, usually to maintain a cover story. Nobody ever takes or needs remedial classes, nobody skips years, and nobody drops out. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })This probably plays into certain insecurities ("back in school" is quite a frequent nightmare from empiric evidence). It may also have to do with children who are visibly not in school being seen by Moral Guardians as a "bad example". Apparently it hasn't crossed their minds to make up a story about being home-schooled. Probably because if you believe everything you see on TV, Homeschooled Kids are weird, socially-inept freaks. This is, however, justified in many countries where homeschooling is not an allowed form of compulsory education. As a result, if a person needs to maintain that masquerade, they need to go to school. In some cases, parents in these countries will be served with a court order because they tried homeschooling their kids, and cases where such kids were taken away Elian-style is not unheard of. Many countries also ban grade skipping in general, often resulting in Teen Genius attending schools with average students. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })May be used to set up a Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World premise. Examples: |
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Astro Boy: Astro is sent to grade school with human children of his apparent age despite being a robot with a super-advanced AI. Sometimes this is explicitly said to be for the purpose of socialization, sometimes not. Subverted with Astro's robot "parents", who are also sent to school in a lower grade because they're actually younger than him. |
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Detective Conan: Shin'ichi Kudo is already a teenager. Then he gets turned into a little kid and ends up having to go back to elementary school. Justified by him needing to hide from the Black Organization that turned him that way in the first place by giving a poison intended to kill him. This is also the case for Ai Haibara, 18 years old, and the developer of the aforementioned Fountain of Youth. |
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Subverted in Sluggy Freelance "Torg Potter" stories, in which full-grown twenty-something Torg gets dragged to a school that awfully resembles Hogwarts. He isn't turned into a child, and promptly finds himself able to do whatever the hell he wants due to being both larger and more experienced than all the students. His greatest foe winds up being the devious headmaster. | |
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Bleach: Bleach has many of the shinigami show up at Ichigo's high school to check up on him, much to his horror. Their bizarre physical appearances (notably Ikkaku, who's bald and carries a bokken around with him because he can't have a regular katana), combined with their school uniforms, causes everyone to automatically assume that they're delinquents. Earlier in the series, Rukia starts attending Ichigo's school after he takes her shinigami powers. It's somewhat justified though, as A) she's living in his closet and can't exactly hide in there all day, and B) she needs to keep an eye on him and instruct him how to fight hollows. She isn't mistaken for a delinquent, though, because she follows the dress code (except for once wearing her winter uniform after everyone else changed), Is intent on hiding her secret identity (going so far as to comically threatening Ichigo with a note written on her hand) and actually looks like a teenage girl. It helps that she's relatively short and flat-chested. |
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Averted in the manga Black Jack with Black Jack's assistant/adopted daughter Pinoko, who is technically eighteen, but has the body of a girl no older than five or six. In the chapter "Pinoko's Challenge", her attempts to get into high school (she suffers nasty psychosomatic illness from the stress of entrance exams) and kindergarten (she gets kicked out after throwing a violent tantrum) both end in disaster. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: Averted in the first Sound Stage, where Hayate asks Vita if she would like to go to school, but Vita says she's not interested. | |
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In the Tenchi Muyo! manga, Sasami ends up entering grade school partway through the initial 12-volume run. It's Justified in that, despite being the Trope Namer for Really 700 Years Old, she's still physically and mentally 9. It's also used to show off extra plots that doesn't involve smacking aliens around. It should be noted, though, that this trope isn't in play in any of the alien-based Tenchi anime. | |
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Elsie from The World God Only Knows goes to school with Keima despite being a demon girl who's over 100 years old. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Asuka claims to have already completed her college education, but still attends school with Shinji and Rei. Judging by how effortlessly she helps Shinji with some of his homework, she may not be lying about this. When Shinji questions how she can possibly be getting bad grades, she replies that she is still a beginner at kanji reading, so she can't actually read most of the questions on their tests. | |
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Whateley Academy has a few students who were originally well beyond high school or even college age: Sara Waite was once a best-selling author and Caitlin used to be an instructor at the school and a former Marine. In both of those cases, part of the in-world justification is the need for a safe hiding place (it seems that the word 'safe' has a different meaning in the this world...) where their apparent age wouldn't be a problem. However, this same logic applies to Samantha Everhart, except that she appears to be over school age, so she became a member of the Security force instead; why Carmilla and Eldritch needed to be students instead of, say, instructors, was always a bit shaky, especially in Sara's case (she's perfectly capable of taking on an adult form). Added justification does come from the need to master their new abilities (and hormones), however. | |
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Burst Angel has Meg and Jo infiltrating a boarding school looking for Body Horrors. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun's Tommy is Really 700 Years Old, but he got the teenage body, so he has to go to High School. In fact, he was specifically put into a teenage body to go to High School. (He was awfully ticked about that, though.) In fact, in an early (perhaps the first) episode, he explicitly states that he's older than Dick and wonders why he has to be the adolescent. | |
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Aigis from Persona 3 goes to the same high school as the rest of the main cast (minus grade schooler Ken) despite being a Robot Girl created for the sole purpose of fighting Shadows. Wearing the long-sleeved winter outfit year round is enough to pass for human, apparently. It is, admittedly, partly her own idea, as it allows her to be near the protagonist at all times. And given her below-average test scores, she may well benefit from her attendance. | |
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In Haiyore! Nyarko-san not only have Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta already graduated from Space College by the time they show up on Earth (and have regular jobs as Space Police), they're also Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors of uncertain agenote As in, when Mahiro tried to learn Nyarko and Cuuko's ages, the girls physically restrained and threatened him into dropping the subject — but since their human forms are teenagers, they go to high school along with Mahiro. | |
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A Certain Magical Index has this mixed. Touma and Tsuchimikado both still attend school despite all their adventures, but many teenaged or child characters do not due to various circumstances, such as Index, Accelerator, or ITEM's members. One scene in New Testament has Yoshikawa and Accelerator discussing enrolling Last Order in school (to which she strongly objects) in order to give her a somewhat more normal life. | |
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The Bunty strip "My School Chum, Mum" was about a woman who used an anti-aging cream that worked too well, and had to attend school as the "cousin" of her daughter. | |
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Both Raven and Miss Martian from Teen Titans wound up in high school at one point. In both cases, it was a deliberate decision on their part: Raven wanted a taste of the "normal" teenage life she never got to experience, and Miss Martian wanted to learn how to fit in with humanity better. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Zeheart Gallette, a teenaged Vagan spy, enrolls in high school during the second arc. Memory of Eden explains why in greater detail: he missed his chance at extraction by Vagan, and wouldn't have another chance for close to a year. He entered school both because it is something a person of his age would be expected to do, and because he needed something to occupy so much time with. | |
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Justified and subverted in The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, whose titular hero chooses to remain in junior high, because he's calculated that the socialization he receives there reduces the probability of being driven wholly insane by his constantly-increasing intellect from "Nearly Inevitable" down to "Merely Very Probable". | |
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Eve from Parasite Eve 2. Clone of Aya, looks like an 11 year old but is possibly younger, in the good ending ends up going to school for children of her apparent age. Not that she learned much from her former caretakers besides how to control genetically-engineered monsters and stand perfectly still in the wake of poison gas. | |
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Waiting in the Summer: After a teenaged Human Alien crashes on Earth, what's the first thing she does? Enrolls in High School, of course. Though pretending to be a foreign exchange student does provide Ichika with a useful cover, an excuse for her odd behavior, and ready access to the boy she likes. | |
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Jack's teenage clone from Stargate SG-1 chooses to go to school, prompting an exchange like this: | |
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Averted in Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic Build Your Wings on the Way Down, Ed mentions that he, Al and Winry stopped going to school as the subject was beneath their intellect. | |
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Occurs in an episode of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee when Jasmine experiences Fountain of Youth syndrome. | |
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Subverted in Xxx HO Li C with Watanuki. Doumeki tries telling him he can't just stay in the shop, he has to go to school. Actually, no Doumeki. Cause I've made an agreement to run this shop and live without aging until Yuuko returns, and I can't leave until that happens. | |
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In 21 Jump Street, the cops are still adult age, but they look like high schoolers, so they have to go to high school to fight crime that happens in/around high school. | |
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In The Sims 2, if your Sim's age is reduced, either by cheating or legitimate means, to the point that they regress back to the "teenager" life stage, they'll have to go back to school—even if they were gainfully employed as an adult. | |
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In Cardcaptor Sakura, Eriol is several centuries old because he is a reincarnation of Clow Reed. However, he stopped his aging process, so he still has the body of a boy about 11 years old, and enters Tomoeda Elementary as a new transfer student. Justified, as he needs to get close to Sakura and Co. | |
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Ami Mizuno of Sailor Moon has the highest test scores in the country, yet she not only attends the same grade as students her age, she spends most of her time out of class in cram school. What in the world she would actually learn from it or which high school's entrance exam she couldn't already pass is anyone's guess. | |
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Superboy was removed from the accelerated growth chamber he was grown in at the apparent age of 16. He had to take a test to see if he needed education or could just rely on his implanted knowledge, and then skipped it to save Hawaii from the Silicon Dragons. High school it is. Then a few incidents convince the people involved that public schooling and superheroes without secret identities don't mix, so he starts getting home-schooled. When he later gets a proper secret identity, he starts attending high school, but it's never mentioned whether he get a G.E.D or the like in the time between. | |
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Several times in Mahou Sensei Negima!. Evangeline is an immortal vampire who was turned when she was ten. When she was defeated by the main character's father, he cursed her to live at a school as a form of Ironic Hell. The original plan was for her to be released at the time of her first graduation, but, well... Chachamaru, who a) is a robot; and b) is only about two and a half years old; but attends school anyway. Of course, she was built in the first place to be Evangeline's servant at school. Sayo, a ghost who can barely wander to the nearby convenience store because she's bound to the school. Eventually Evangeline and Asakura give her a doll to possess that allows her to leave the campus. |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jimmy is most obviously a scientific genius, with an IQ well over 300, and still goes to school to learn about things he most likely already knows. In one episode, he is offered a college scholarship (and later a teaching job), but goes back to fifth grade at the end because he would rather be with his friends than with his intellectual equals. | |
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Variation: In Ojamajo Doremi, Dokkan has two-year-old Hana-chan undergo a Plot-Relevant Age-Up. Off to the sixth grade for her! (Justified in that it was what she wanted in the first place — to be with her moms.) | |
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Code Geass: Played straight with Suzaku, who, despite being in the military, is ordered by Princess Euphemia to go to school at the same time. In the Alternate Continuity manga spinoff, Euphemia goes to the same school as everyone else, despite being the Viceroy of the nation in which they all live. Suzaku also suggest to Euphemia she could join the school as well. When she has a few seconds left to live. |
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Lampshaded in Young Dracula, where the Count has no intention of sending his children to school until a social worker comes by to insist. By Series Three, and post-Time Skip, the Count has come around to seeing the advantages of sending his children to school. He insists that Ingrid attends school so that he doesn't have to see her all day... despite her being twenty by this time. | |
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CLANNAD: Teen Genius Kotomi Ichinose still attends high school despite having long since proven there's nothing more any of the teachers there could possibly teach her. For a given value of "attends" anyway, as she doesn't actually go to class, instead spending all her time in the school library studying up on much more advanced subjects. | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Played with regarding Kanna. She is a dragon, but besides taking the form of an elementary school-age girl, it's also said that she's a child by dragon standards. So she goes to school both to get a better grasp of the human world and because she wants friends. Subverted regarding Ilulu, who is the dragon equivalent of 16 and therefore old enough that school would be optional for her. Saikawa briefly wonders why she doesn't go to school, and she shows brief interest in going to elementary school with Kanna (not understanding the concept of grade levels), but she never actually enrolls. |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace's first day in high school provides an aversion. She's having a hard time due to her genius-level intelligence and lack of real-world knowledge, and it has been suggested that she be put in a remedial class. Ellen have to go through the high school right after living through it with her Alternate Self in the Second Life. Though history and some of biology are not the same. |
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Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, and Edward from Twilight all go to school, though Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper eventually graduate. Over the years, however, all of them have done this repeatedly—a few of them even went to college and medical school, multiple times. This is supposedly necessary because the younger they claim to be at the beginning, the longer they can live in one place without arousing suspicion because they don't age. Plus, it just looks weird to have a couple move in with their 5 barely-adult kids. But if the kids are still minors? Not odd at all. Of course, the constant lies regarding sunny days and "field trips" make it seem like it would be easier to say they were being homeschooled. | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: Inverted in "I Was a Pre-School Dropout", where Jenny, despite being mentally and physically a teenager who happens to be made of metal, is assigned to a class matching her chronological age and has to survive a day in kindergarten. She gets to go back to high school when her 'mother' tells them "she was designed as a teenager"—the same thing Jenny said earlier, but without a diagram like Nora. Sheldon is a Gadgeteer Genius almost as capable of Jenny's creator, but he's still in the same grade as a normal boy his age. He'd probably want to avoid graduating earlier because it would give him less time to spend with Jenny, but that doesn't explain why he was still in high school before they met. This is taken even further in the episode "Good Old Sheldon", where Sheldon spent 75 years wandering space while one day passed on Earth, was physically reduced to infancy, and spent another fifteen years in space to bring him back to his original physical age, yet still attends school afterward like nothing happened. Played with when Misty moves to Earth: she starts attending school, but only to hang out with Jenny. She ends up expelled from Jenny's high school and doesn't bother to attend any other one. |
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In Space Pirate Mito, the titular character is an alien who is Really Twelve Thousand Years Old, but looks like a third grader. While spying on her half-human son in high school, she's caught by a teacher and sent to elementary school, and she continues to attend, as seen in later episodes. | |
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Happens in an issue of Hack/Slash, where Miss America On Phlebotinum Gone Horribly Wrong joins a boarding school with a secret Les Yay club looking for human blood to keep her body young and beautiful. | |
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Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog attempted to enforce this during the early days of the comic's Dork Age. It quietly forgotten after the Time Skip and hasn't been brought up since. | |
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Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, because she took on the guise of a schoolgirl to approach Cordelia and got stuck in it. | |
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Sissy in Umlaut House 2 is 16, but is a brilliant (if unstable) science prodigy. Just before finishing her doctorate, she becomes a Mad Scientist and has to be stopped by the protagonists (one of whom happens to be her mentor/grad adviser). Her father decides that she's spent too much time away from others her own age and enrolls her in high school to get her better acclimated to mainstream society (it doesn't work). | |
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Despite being a supergenius (and an evil one at that), Artemis Fowl's parents insist he attend St. Bartleby's something-or-other. He didn't go to school in the first book, when his mother was completely insane. Later on, he was made to go back, which makes sense from his parent's point of view as they probably want him to be normal (him mother even forced him to wear a T-shirt). He still found it annoying. | |
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In The Saga of Darren Shan, when Darren attends school to avoid drawing undue attention to himself. | |
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Alex Rider, because it wouldn't be good if people found out he was a super-secret spy. | |
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Referenced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rascals", where people turn into kids: | |
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